hell
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Is this hell, purgatory or just a cosmic punchline?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
"I dove headfirst into my own hell," she wrote.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Forbes’ top editor was fired over one hell of a gift.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
At which point all Midwestern hell breaks loose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
It was a roustabout settlement with three stores, a blacksmithy, a boarding house, a half-dozen saloons, gambling hells and dance halls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
It’s going to be one hell of an offseason, and there’s nothing like hells of offseasons.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
On August 4th, we watched from our separate hells as a 40,000-foot cloud the color of bruised flesh collapsed over the ridge west of Greenville.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
Even the most “normal” version of this show, though, is odd and inquisitive, with a lot to say about how we create our own paradises and hells.
From The Verge ● Dec. 12, 2018
In Westeros the septons spoke of seven hells and seven heavens, but the Seven Kingdoms and their gods were far away.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
